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"musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace." »Plato
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"Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry." »This Is Spinal Tap
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"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience." »John Cage
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"But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument." »Andrew Schneider
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"Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man." »Erich Fromm
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"Silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold." »Susanne Millen
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned." »George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." »Alanis Morissette
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"Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped." »Calvin Coolidge
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"Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having." »Ambrose Bierce
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"There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." »J. S . Bach
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"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." »Samuel Butler
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"Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns." »John Maurice Clark
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"Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." »Samuel Butler
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"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas." »Samuel Johnson
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation." »George Santayana
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"Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." »Stuart Seaton
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"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness." »Chamfort
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"The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." »U.S. vs Cruikshan
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"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning." »Robert Collier
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"He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away." »The Talmud
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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge." »Alexis Carrel
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"It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_." »Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe
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